How Did Meriwether Lewis And Clark Attack

Meriwether Lewis was an American soldier and was a politician. He was better known for his huge contribution and leadership to the expedition of the then newly bought Louisiana Purchase, it was better known as the Lewis and Clark expedition. They explored the Louisiana Purchase and they were attempting to make friends and trade with natives, discover all of the species in the new addition to the country, they were also trying to find a route to the pacific. They went through many hardships including facing a bear that slowly inched closer as they stood still observing it. They faced heavy currents along the rivers, storms that came close to halting them, disease, and hostile natives. We believe that he was traveling to Washington to deliver secret codes to the president. Along the journey he was murdered by conspiracy and two pistols one shot to the head and one to the chest.
Meriwether Lewis was shot in the chest beneath his ribs this first shot would have rendered him very close to death if not dead because the gun that he was killed with was used to stop cavalries meaning it would be used to break a horses neck while they were running. Then he would have had to reload this monster of a gun and shot himself in the back of the head. There was no …show more content…
In exhibit G detective Stone states that he finds it odd that Wilkinson was tried for treason and Lewis was helping to convict him. Wilkinson feared that Lewis had evidence of his treason and was delivering them to the president. So he hired to soldiers that used to fight for him (Captain Russell an Major Neely) as military escort for Lewis trying to get to Washington that’s who were the